Authors

Clay Lane

in The Copy Book

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Black Agnes Dunbar

When Edward III sent the Earl of Salisbury to take her absent husband’s castle, Agnes brushed his attack aside - literally.

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The Boston Tea Party

In the time of King George III, Parliament forgot that its job was not to regulate the people, but to represent them.

471

Cain and Abel

Smarting for his outraged ‘rights’, Cain lost his reason — but not God’s pity and love.

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Cyril and Hypatia

A ‘Christian’ mob kidnapped and murdered a much-loved professor of mathematics - for her politics.

473

Daniel in the Lions’ Den

The King who condemned him to the den of lions felt far worse about it than Daniel did.

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The Daring Escape of Richard the Fearless

The ten-year-old got away from a royal castle disguised as a bundle of hay.